In 1948, Suriname — then a Dutch colony in South America — backed out of a plan to settle 30,000 European Jewish displaced persons. This week, Israel’s Holocaust remembrance authority ...

Suriname is a former Dutch colony in the north of South America, with a long history of corruption and drug dealings, but oil could make a vast transformation. Anyhow crude discoveries have opened ...

A former Dutch colony, Suriname is located at the northern top of South America. However, it enjoys close diplomatic relations with the Caribbean and is part of the Caribbean Community regional bloc ...

Egger, whose grandfather was a slave, was born in 1900 in Suriname, then a Dutch colony in South America. He moved to the Netherlands for his studies. There, he met a Jewish woman, Engelina Jas.

PARAMARIBO, Suriname (AP) — Desi Bouterse, a military strongman who led a 1980 coup in the former Dutch colony of Suriname then returned to power by election three decades later despite charges ...

Exploration and development of oil and gas resources in the ex Dutch colony of Suriname, now an independent country, was the main point of the agenda addressed by Brazilian foreign minister Carlos ...

The author, Englishman John Gabriel Stedman, was hired by the Dutch to help quell slave uprisings in their South American colony ... depiction of a slave in Surinam hanging by a single rib ...

As Bernhard drove up, a band played the Dutch anthem, then broke into Surinam’s own anthem, outlawed until The Hague granted the colony self-government last month. Bernhard congratulated the 21 ...

A three-judge panel in Suriname on Wednesday upheld the conviction of former President Desi Bouterse for his role in the execution of 15 people in the former Dutch colony in December 1982 ...

Desi Bouterse, a military strongman who led a 1980 coup in the former Dutch colony of Suriname and then returned to power by election three decades later despite charges of drug smuggling and ...